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THE RUNAWAYS - More Footage From New Movie Available




Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning star in the music-fueled story of the ground-breaking, all girl, teenage rock band of the 1970s: THE RUNAWAYS, which will be released by Apparition on March 19th. Check out a new high definition trailer below:

'The Runaways' Trailer HD

Rolling Stone also has an exclusive clip from the film here.

The soundtrack for The Runaways will be available for download on March 16th, and will hit stores on March 23rd. The Runaways soundtrack features the following tracklisting:

NICK GILDER - 'Roxy Roller'
SUZI QUATRO - 'The Wild One'
MC5 - 'It's A Man's Man's Man's World'
DAVID BOWIE - 'Rebel Rebel'
DAKOTA FANNING - 'Cherry Bomb'
THE RUNAWAYS - 'Hollywood'
DAKOTA FANNING - 'California Paradise'
THE RUNAWAYS - 'You Drive Me Wild'
DAKOTA FANNING & KRISTEN STEWART - 'Queens Of Noise'
KRISTEN STEWART & DAKOTA FANNING - 'Dead End Justice'
THE STOOGES - 'I Wanna Be Your Dog'
THE RUNAWAYS - 'I Wanna Be Where The Boys Are' (live)
SEX PISTOLS - 'Pretty Vacant'
JOAN JETT - 'Don't Abuse Me'

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THE RUNAWAYS Movie Brings Cherie Currie Back To Music


Gary Graff from Billboard.com is reporting:

The impending release of THE RUNAWAYS film is bringing singer Cherie Currie back to music, as well as book stores.

Currie - whose autobiography, Neon Angel: A Memoir Of A Runaway (It Books, March 16) is the basis for the movie - tells Billboard.com that working with actress Dakota Fanning, who depicts her, and getting back into the studio with Joan Jett to work on the soundtrack has rekindled her appetite to be a queen of noise once more.

"Oh, absolutely, yeah," says Currie, who went on to acting, drug counseling and personal training, while in recent years has become an accomplished chainsaw sculptor. "I know I'm going to be doing shows over the summer. I've written a few songs. We'll see what happens. Am I banking on it? No. I've got my chainsaw and my wood and I'm very happy. But I know I'm going to be doing some (musical) things here and there, and we'll see what comes of it."

Currie says seeing the Runaways' story turned into a movie -- which opens March 19 and also stars Kristen Stewart as Jett and Academy Award nominee Michael Shannon as band svengali Kim Fowley -- is "just unreal. I still have to pinch myself. This is something I did for a little over two years, and it was a big deal at the time but now it seems to have taken on a whole other life of its own."

Currie and Jett, who was a co-producer on the film, both spent considerable time on the set working with their counterparts. But Currie says the soundtrack sessions, marking the first time since 1977 that she and Jett were in a studio together, were particularly special. "It was as if time had stood still, as if these last 35 years never happened," she recalls. "We were on the mark. It was incredible. We had a fantastic time." The two Runaways coached Fanning and Stewart through new recordings of 'Cherry Bomb', 'California Paradise', 'Queens of Noise' and 'Dead End Justice'. "I sat in the vocal booth with (Fanning)," Currie says, "and Joan sat with Kristen. They did a great job. Dakota is quite a singer, and so is Kristen. It was just a blast."

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THE RUNAWAYS Glam Look Impact Examined





Elana Ashanti Jefferson from Denverpost.com is reporting:

After taking in the feathered bangs, leather jeans, polyester lapels, "knock me down" platforms and array of gold lame in the '70s-era biopic THE RUNAWAYS, viewers are more likely to experience a fashion flashback.

The film, based on a book by one-time Joan Jett sidekick Cheri Currie, illustrates the then-budding romance between fashion and image in rock 'n' roll - a relationship that became so intense that today's pop rockers are as much about product placement as they are about radio play.

"Nowadays, there would be a lot of people having a lot of input into how (artists) dress," said Carol Beadle. Speaking this week from Los Angeles, the costume designer for The Runaways added that the style most characterized by the band, considered hard rock's first significant all-girl outfit, was the same gloss-and-glam look of that era's other teen idols — think ALICE COOPER, DAVID BOWIE, AEROSMITH and, especially apropros, SUZI QUATRO.

"Fashionwise, I don't know that (The Runaways) made a big impact," said Beadle, who cut her teeth selling vintage clothes before going to fashion school and then stumbling into music-video styling. Her triumphs include award-winning videos for MARILYN MANSON's 'Beautiful People' and THE KILLERS' 'Mr. Brightside'.

"I think each of (The Runaways) was looking at their idol at the time, like any teenager, and incorporating that into their wardrobe with whatever financial means they had," Beadle said.

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